pypdftk

Python module to drive the awesome pdftk binary.

Proudly brought to you by the revolunet team

Features

fill_form

Fill a PDF with given data and returns the output PDF path

• pdf_path : input PDF
• datas : dictionnary of fielf names / values
• out_file (default=auto) : output PDF path. will use tempfile if not provided
• flatten (default=True) : flatten the final PDF

concat

Merge multiple PDFs into one single file and returns the output PDF path

• files : list of PDF files to concatenate
• out_file (default=auto) : output PDF path. will use tempfile if not provided

split

Split a single PDF in many pages and return a list of pages paths

• pdf_path : input PDF
• out_dir (default=auto) : output PDFs dir. will use tempfile if not provided

warning if you give a out_dir parameter, ensure its empty, or the split function may destroy your files and return incorrect results.

gen_xfdf

Generate a XFDF file suited for filling PDF forms and return the generated XFDF file path

• datas : dictionnary of datas

get_num_pages

Return the number of pages for a given PDF

• pdf_path : input PDF file

Example

Fill a PDF model and add a cover page :

import pypdftk

datas = {
    'firstname': 'Julien',
    'company': 'revolunet',
    'price': 42
}
generated_pdf = pypdftk.fill_form('/path/to/model.pdf', datas)
out_pdf = pypdftk.merge(['/path/to/cover.pdf', generated_pdf])

Licence

This module is released under the permissive MIT license. Your contributions are always welcome.